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A Streetcar Named Desire - The San Francisco Opera World Premiere

About A Streetcar Named Desire - The San Francisco Opera World Premiere

  • Released on December 30, 1998
  • Music

Recorded live with the San Francisco Opera, the world premiere production of Andre Previn's A Streetcar Named Desire. For his first-ever opera, Previn turned to one of the most celebrated plays in the history of American theater, Tennessee Williams' Pulitzer Prize-winning A Streetcar Named Desire. He saw the haunting story of lost youth and innocence in the romantic, shadowy world of New Orleans as ideal material. Collaborating with librettist Philip Littell, Previn has captured all the claustrophobic tension, volatile emotion and sexual undertow of Williams' original in his own Streetcar. This world premiere recording took place in September 1998 at the spectacularly renovated War Memorial Opera House, with Previn conducting.

Full Cast of A Streetcar Named Desire - The San Francisco Opera World Premiere

Renée Fleming
plays Blanche Dubois

Renée Fleming as Blanche Dubois

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Elizabeth Futral
plays Stella Kowalski

Rodney Gilfry
plays Stanley Kowalski

Judith Forst
plays Eunice Hubbell

Anthony Dean Griffey
plays Mitch

Matthew Lord
plays Steve Hubbell

Luis Oropeza
plays Luis Gonzales


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